· Private foundation
The Linnemann Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY | $100,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM | $60,000 |
| SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SKAGIT LAND TRUST | $40,000 |
| CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $35,000 |
| MAKETANK INC | $30,000 |
| FIDDLEHEAD MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| OVER THE RHINE MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| SPCA | $15,000 |
| FREESTOREFOODBANK | $10,000 |
| CALVARY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| SKOOKUM KIDS | $2,500 |
| SKAGIT COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS | $2,500 |
| SKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SEX ABUSE SERVICES | $2,500 |
| L'ARCHE ST LOUIS | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $207k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CSCINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY8× · 2017–2024 · $655k · revenue +53%
- TCTHE COLORADO COLLEGE4× · 2017–2021 · $400k · revenue +39%
SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- OLOHIO LIVING FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +52%
FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -1%
FEATHERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
Through the power of art, we contribute to a more vibrant cincinnati by inspiring its people and connecting our communities.
Ensemble theatre of cincinnati is a professional theatre rooted in historic over-the- rhine, dedicated to engaging, enriching and inspiring audiences through our thought-provoking world and regional premier productions, creating and…
Creating adventure, conveying knowledge, conserving nature, and serving the community. with the addition of our fourth pillar to our mission statement, serving community, we recognize the responsibility to partner with diverse and…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.
To connect all people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature, and advance conservation action.
The mission of the cincinnati observatory is to maintain the integrity and heritage of an historic 19th century observatory and to educate, engage, and inspire our community about astronomy and science.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Living Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Maketank Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SKAGIT LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds FIDDLEHEAD MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OHIO LIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ↗
- Who funds OHIO END OF LIFE OPTIONS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds GRANT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Skookum Kids ↗
- Who funds MAKETANK INC ↗
- Who funds BEECH ACRES ↗
- Who funds SKAGIT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ANACORTES FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC ↗
- Who funds FEATHERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANACORTES COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MADISONVILLE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LARCHE ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ANACORTES 100 FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Oceanic Society Expeditions ↗
- Who funds ORCA CONSERVANCY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Charles Scott Riley III Foundation · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · The Skagit Community Foundation · Millstone Fund · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Linnemann Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.